500 Capp Street is pleased to announce our 2024-2025 International Artist Residency recipients, SHIMURAbros based in Tokyo and Berlin.The Japanese artist-duo relocated to Berlin in 2014 on a research grant from the Pola Art Foundation, where they are currently researchers at the studio of Olafur Eliasson. SHIMURAbros just arrived in San Francisco, spending their two-month residency from November to December of this year. Please extend your warm welcome to them if you happen to see them in the house.
With the additional support of the Individual fellowship grant of the Asian Cultural Council they are researching on the life and motivations of Beate Sirota Gordon who has contributed to women’s rights in the Japanese constitution. Beate Sirota Gordon was an Oakland resident in 1939 upon her attendance to Mills College studying Modern Languages.
SHIIMURAbros a sister-brother duo comprising Yuka Shimura, who was born in 1976 and holds a bachelor’s degree from Tama Art University and a master’s degree from University of the Arts London: Central St Martins, and her brother Kentaro, who was born in 1979 and holds a degree in Imaging Art from Tokyo Polytechnic University. The duo is a recipient of the Excellence Award in the Art Division of the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival, hosted by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. In recent years the works of SHIMURAbros have been exhibited at the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions. In 2017, ArtReview Asia magazine named SHIMURAbros as a “future great”. SHIMURAbros relocated to Berlin in 2014 on a research grant from the Pola Art Foundation, where they are currently resident as researchers at the studio of Olafur Eliasson.
ABOVE IMAGE: SHIMURAbros, SILVER SCREEN – Hanabi. Single Screen Video Installation, 2018. Installation view: Atrium Gallery, Pola Museum of Art. Photo courtesy of the artists and the Tokyo Gallery +BTAP
TOP IMAGE: SHIMURAbros, Kentaro and Yuka at the Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino, 2024.
The 500 Capp Street yearly international artist residency is generously supported by the Sanger Family Foundation. In addition to this year’s support is the Individual Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council.